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[linux-dvb] Re: Hauppauge Nova-T Problems



On Friday 15 Aug 2003 11:37 am, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Friday 15 August 2003 11:26 am, you wrote:
> > But if I pipe it through mplayer I don't get a picture just...
> >
> > tzap -r BBC-1
> > mplayer - < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
> >
> > Playing -
> > Reading from stdin...
> > Cache fill: 19.34% (1622016 bytes)    XMMS: found plugin: libcdaudio.so
> > (CD
> >
> >
> > Am I doing this right? Or am I getting spurious data?
>
> Almost :)
>
> You can see from the 20% cache fill that data is coming in OK. The reason
> you're not seeing any TV is because mplayer is being fed 18Mbps of MPEG2
> Transport Stream containing BBC ONE, TWO, THREE, and News24...
>
> You need to extract the right PIDs from the stream before passing it onto
> mplayer... I usually use dvbstream for this...
>
> $ dvbstream -o -ps 600 601 | mplayer -nocache -
>
> Will pick out the BBC ONE video and audio and pass it through.

Wow!

It works. I've got a picture - with sound. :-)

Some times there seems to be syncing problems e.g. no picture, sound out of 
sync with video, etc. Is there anything I can do about this?

Thank you.


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